You know how storytelling is really the heart of ALL powerful marketing, right?

That it’s intrinsic to marketing that works, on a gut level?

And how telling relevant stories to your market helps nurture a relationship with your prospects, that helps you sell products more than just about anything else?

IF YOU DO, then you’re going to love the selling power of this following technique.

I’ve seen a few really smart marketers use a cool new service called Whrrl in very creative ways.

Whrrl creates powerful pictorial stories on the go!

Take a look at an example, to get an idea first (click on the picture to see the slideshow):

As you can see, the way this works is basically post a few photos and comments, to form a quick slideshow or feed.

WHY would you want to do this?

The point is, dear grasshopper, to pre-sell your audience on whatever it is that you’re selling.

ESPECIALLY if there’s a specific type of lifestyle or experience associated with it.

In those cases (which is pretty much everything when you think about it), this type of pre-selling works incredibly well!

Let’s take a few examples of what you could do with this:

• Tell the story of a consumer experience you had (as in the example above)
• A pictorial from your client’s premises (or your own office)
  
• Show & tell from your seminar experiences
• Even your personal vacation!

So this is what you do. When you want to endear your audience to you, and show them either something useful or experiential.

If you have an opportunity to tell a great, relevant story to your customers, do it fast with Whrrl without having jump through all the rest of the hoops.

Do NOT underestimate the power of Visual Storytelling to Pre-Sell your customers on just about anything!

Get started with their easy tutorials over here.

PS. There’s also a free iPhone app available so you can do it immediately, as IT happens. Go for it!

Sure, you can scan your @mentions on Twitter to find who have retweeted your blog posts, articles, videos and other important links you want to keep track of.

But what if they misspelled your Twitter ID? Or used a URL shortener – which is like every time…

Or, you want to make a list of all the people who have retweeted your links over the last, say… 6 months? That’s some serious work to do.

Or how about finding re-tweeters who really dig your links but didn’t include your @ID, maybe got it from somewhere else? You’d certainly want to find out about your biggest fans and start a dialog, right?

Or you just want to save yourself from wading through all those @mentions?

To save you from all that time and effort in finding your real fans and peers on Twitter, enter a superb service called BackTweets.

BackTweets - finds all your links posted on Twitter!

What BackTweets does is just exceedingly sweet: you enter a URL, push the button and BackTweets will return ALL of the links with that URL on it, in chronological order.

And here’s the really cool part: it doesn’t matter if the links have been shortened with Bit.ly, TinyURL.com or the like. It’s smart enough to retrieve all those links too.

Backtweets search results - nice and FAST!

Is there a faster, more convenient way to do this? I haven’t found another, Let me know in the comments if you have (Twitter’s own search isn’t particularly good at this just yet).

And there’s one more thing… BackTweets Advanced Search.

You can use Advanced Search to narrow down the search by Twitter User or by searching a specific Date Span.

Which comes in very handy if your site or blog is particularly huge and you don’t want to wade through pages of results.

Or if you wanted to find out all the people who supported you with retweets on a particular day, say, a launch day, and want to reward them with something special.

Or if you’re the tight-reared type who wants to find out if a particular friend ever supported you by retweeting..?

But you’re not THAT vain, are you…? Of course not!